Chapter 323: The Power of Armored Cavalry

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A thousand Youzhou Iron Cavalry were like ghosts killed in the night, which caught the county soldiers off guard.

The sound of horses' hooves rolled, the butter torches were thrown on the ground, the horse lance waved, a person was fiercely picked off, the war horse trampled over, and the county soldiers wearing iron armor were knocked into the sky by the war horse, and the whole person fell to the ground like a broken sack.

After paying the price of dozens of cavalry casualties, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry broke through the shield array and entered the big kill. Although the county soldiers are elite standing guards, but the Youzhou Iron Cavalry is the first-class elite soldiers of the entire Great Sui, at the beginning of the defense of the Eastern Turks, the imperial court almost used the strength of the whole country to form 3,000 heavy cavalry, in Zhuo County, for strategic maneuvering.

The power of the Iron Cavalry, which is difficult to see directly in the era of cold weapons. Historically, since the Sui Dynasty, the Han people have reduced the heavy riding and changed to light riding, a big reason is that the horse breeds in the Central Plains are mostly only two or three hundred catties, which cannot be loaded with heavy horses, and if they can be loaded with heavy armor horses, it is too expensive.

And European horses have Arab horse blood, seven or eight hundred pounds and so on, so they can meet the heavy armor, so the European iron can heavy riding has become a sign of the times.

The war horses of the Tunguska nation that rose in Liaodong can carry weight, so they are good at heavy riding, and the Jurchens in history prefer to ride heavily and lightly, and even have Jurchens who are not satisfied with 10,000 and cannot be reached. Later, when the Jurchen Kingdom Zuo declined, the loyal and filial piety army of the monk Wanyan Chen rose with heavy cavalry and reproduced the glory of the ancestors, and although the Mongols swept the world with light horses, they were not equipped with heavy horses, and then the Manchurian Eight Banners at the end of the Ming Dynasty was the last revival of heavy cavalry in history.

In the face of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, the county soldiers could not help but shake, everyone was greedy for life and afraid of death, the county soldiers tried to resist for a while, and the formation collapsed at the moment, and the soldiers fled regardless of the general's obstruction, and were chased and killed by the Youzhou Iron Cavalry. As soon as the formation was broken, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry was unscrupulous and wrecked in the formation, almost becoming a massacre.

Seeing this scene, Su Su on Li Chongjiu's side hurriedly said: "Xiao Jiu, this Luo Yi is used by Er Zhurong to break Ge Rong's tactics in the battle of Yecheng. ”

Battle of Yecheng!

At that time, under Yecheng, Ge Rong led the army of the Six Towns Rebellion, claiming to have a million troops, but Er Zhurong easily defeated them with 7,000 elite cavalry. The tactics used by Er Zhurong was to lead the iron cavalry to smash Ge Rong's Chinese army, and after Ge Rongsheng was captured, all the rebel troops surrendered.

Luo Yi's current approach is the same as Ge Rong's. One blow to seal the throat is really the most ruthless means.

However, after a while, the county soldiers who blocked it had been completely routed, and they were chased and crushed by the Youzhou Iron Cavalry with a horse lance.

"It's better to put down the handsome flag!" Liu Yi, the county guard of Anle County, was already frightened.

On the side, Su Su's face changed when he heard this, and he said, "What are you talking about?" ”

Liu Yi stretched out his hand and pointed forward, and said: "You can't hold it anymore, the county soldiers who have just returned to reinforcements from all walks of life are still halfway there, and they don't have time to rush back to ......."

"Say goodbye, put down the handsome flag, cut it!" Li Chongjiu said sharply. When Liu Yi saw it, he immediately lowered his head and said, "Please forgive me." ”

Li Chongjiu said in his heart that he led the army to the south and the north for a long time, although there have always been few headwind battles, the soldiers are used to big victories, and even victory, although they have forged an elite with this momentum, but the soldiers have lost a bloody determination to fight to the end.

Li Chongjiu said: "The handsome flag is here, it must not be shaken, and all armies are ordered to come to the rescue." ”

At the same time, Jingbian Hou Luo Yi was holding a horse lance, and he had just pulled the horse lance out of the chest of a county soldier, and the blood in his chest splashed his iron armor all over his body, full of blood.

"It's a pity, you had the opportunity to cut Lao Tzu, but even if you did, Lao Tzu had heavy armor, and you couldn't hurt Lao Tzu. So you died uselessly, you know? ”

The dying soldier's eyes widened, blood spurted out of his mouth unwillingly, and finally fell to the ground with a thud.

On the side, Luo Yi's personal soldiers also killed more than a dozen soldiers, and they all stepped forward and said, "Dashuai, are you okay?" ”

Luo Yiyan said: "I can't hurt Lao Tzu, but I didn't expect that this county soldier would dare to turn back with a few species." But so what, can it hurt Lao Tzu? ”

The soldiers laughed heroically.

At this time, one of them stretched out his hand and said, "Master Hou, the handsome flag of the enemy army is in front of you!" It seems to be in formation! ”

Luo Yi's eyes jumped, took off the iron mask in the helmet, and said: "It's just such a person, I don't know whether to live or die?" ”

Luo Yi looked at it from a distance, and the other party was about more than 500 foot soldiers, and the erected step lance surrounded Li Zi Daxu in the middle. And under the general flag, a person wearing a crimson cloak, wearing heavy armor, and standing on a horse, should be Li Chongjiu.

"Lift the team!"

Seeing the other party's reaction, Luo Yi roared, and a commander waved the Luo Zijiang flag left and right, and then fell, for fear that the rest of the people in the night would not be able to see the flag clearly, the commander also shot three chirping arrows in the direction of Li Chongjiu's general flag.

The formation of more than 1,000 county soldiers was easily broken, not to mention the present.

The sound was sharp and loud, and the Youzhou cavalry who were chasing and killing on all sides gave up the pursuit of the remnants of the county soldiers and regrouped their ranks.

On the other hand, after Su Su saw that Luo Yi had given up the pursuit of the county soldiers, the remnants of the county soldiers regrouped one after another, and went to the back of General Li Chongjiu's banner with a dejected face, and as for the person who lost his weapon, he also picked up whatever he had around him.

"Luo Yi's move, isn't it a respite for our army?"

"No, Luo Yi wants to see my general, so he wants to fight with me and decide the winner, he has a lot of cavalry, and he is not afraid of such a conflict!"

Li Chongjiu saw that the soldiers on the left and right had given up the attack on the Khitan camp and were gathering, and they did not advance quickly, but marched in a dense formation.

Obviously, they also knew that the infantry that was not in formation was a dish for the armored cavalry, and they came to support not to help, but to send them to death. Therefore, even if the Chinese army had police, they did not support them quickly in the form of a skirmish.

Seeing the judgment made by the generals of the county soldiers, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but nodded, this is the only thing that generals have.

"Xiao Jiu, they're almost finished!" Su Su reminded on the side.

Li Chongjiu nodded, and at this time, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and Li Chongjiu saw a cavalry on the right rushing towards his Chinese army camp!

"Who is it?" Li Chongjiu asked out loud.

Su Su frowned and said, "If there is another enemy all the way, our army will be attacked on both sides!" ”

The scout below looked around for a while, and said, "It's too dark to see his flag clearly...... Oh, I saw it clearly, it was the captain of Zhuo County...... Marshal, it's General Wei Chi! ”

Hearing that Wei Chigong was coming, Li Chongjiu's heart was relieved, and the generals' faces were overjoyed, and just as a horse roar sounded at this moment.

Li Chongjiu only felt that the ground was sinking, and Luo Yi led his Youzhou Iron Cavalry to rush towards his own Chinese army.

It turned out that Luo Yi saw Wei Chi Gong coming, for fear of being hindered, and without waiting for the heavy cavalry to be assembled, he rushed up with more than 500 cavalry around him.

In the night, a layer of streamer shone on the heavy cavalry iron armor, the blood-stained horse lance was laid down, and the cavalry in front of it was laid out in a horizontal straight line. Many of these heavy horsemen have been injured in iron armor, or they are pierced with a few arrows, obviously they have no price for breaking the county soldiers intercepted by Li Chongjiu just now.

But even so, the power of the heavy cavalry made everyone's hearts tense at the same time.

Li Chongjiu felt that the generals around him were unconsciously swallowing their saliva, and even Su Su couldn't help but tremble his wrists.

Li Chongjiu immediately took out his five-stone star-picking bow from the side of the horse, sank it on his shoulder, and shot an arrow at the first enemy!

A cavity of blood penetrated, and the enemy horseman, who was currently rushing in front, was hit by an arrow in the chest, and fell off the horse unwillingly, and the iron armor smashed to the ground with a muffled sound.

"Good archery!"

Looking at Li Chongjiu's arrow, the three armies applauded, and suddenly their nervousness suddenly disappeared.

Li Chongjiu was unforgiving, and he had five arrows in a row.

The bowstring collapsed, and the arrow did not fail,

The opponent's five horsemen were shot straight off their horses. At this time, the hundred crossbowmen were determined, and they did not move until the heavy cavalry approached.

When it was close to thirty paces, the crossbowman placed the arrow under the general's order, and a round of arrow rain shot out because it was close to the enemy, and at that moment more than 20 horsemen of the opponent were shot off the horse, and its charging momentum was a setback, but more Youzhou cavalry rushed up.

"Spear!"

At the moment when the crossbowmen finished shooting the arrows, the generals of the front army shouted, and three rows of spears and lances were erected forward, and the Youzhou Iron Cavalry rushed to kill as if ignoring this spear forest.

Then a spear broke, and the horse neighed.

Li Chongjiu took a deep breath, holding the bow in his hand while looking left and right, looking for Luo Yi's traces. But this time he learned his lesson and hid superbly.

Suck!

Li Chongjiu shot another arrow and knocked over a cavalryman, but at this time, the spear array in front was already in danger, and even though the Youzhou Iron Cavalry suffered a lot of casualties, it was all desperate for his life at this moment.

"Don't be alarmed, the Hualang Army has arrived!"

At this moment, there was a shout in the crowd, and I saw hundreds of soldiers rushing over in stride, rushing towards the flank of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

It was the Hualang Army led by Jin Chunqiu who arrived, but he didn't expect the Hualang Army to be the first reinforcement to rush to reinforcements.

At this time, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry rushed into the spear array and fought with Li Chongjiu's personal guards, while the Hualang Army killed from the flank.

Sergeant Hua Lang is very skilled, and he has learned martial arts since childhood.

When the Hua Lang army saw the iron cavalry, they did not panic, so they fell to the ground and slashed the horse's legs without protection with a weapon similar to a simple knife. There were even brave warriors who climbed onto their horses from the side and stabbed them with sharp blades into the neck where the helmet and cuirass met.

Blocked by the Hualang army, the progress of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry was greatly slow.

And at this time, Wei Chi Gong, who was wearing iron armor, also led the cavalry and fought from behind.

"Hugh hurt my junior brother!"

But listening to Wei Chigong's shout, he took the lead, holding a horse lance majestic, and a black face blended into the night, which looked even more vicious. Wei Chigong led the cavalry to smash in from the back and killed the Youzhou iron cavalry at close range.

There is not much to do about a heavy rider alone against a light rider.

Therefore, seeing the arrival of reinforcements from two directions, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel relieved in his heart, but at this moment, more than a dozen horsemen of the enemy army actually broke through the spear array in front and came straight to Shuai Qi.